ASPEN

Little Aspen was in a Kill Pen in Kansas. Tiny at 13.3 hands she wasn’t big enough for anyone to want her for a riding horse. She is tiny boned and tiny framed and also seemed entirely wild and unhandled. We added her to our rescue as she was also from Divide Basin, one of the Wyoming herds the BLM is proposing to entirely wipe out. We had spent three weeks advocating for the three herds involved and it seemed like the truly best way to help was to rescue a horse from there so we could better put a face to the herd. She traveled to Oregon and was a nervous and reactive wild horse.

However, after some time of sitting with her and winning her over with grain and scratches, we put a halter on her and realized she had at some point been gentled and was a sweet and loving mustang. We feel so lucky that through a series of circumstances and a home falling through once rescued that she really is a horse that makes a great ambassador and a face for the herds of Wyoming horses we continue to fight for to keep them wild and free. #skydogaspen

Mustangs & Burros Need Your Help

In addition to supporting our work by donating, becoming a patron on Patreon, or sponsoring a Skydog, there are several important pieces of legislation to protect American equines currently moving through Congress. It only takes a few minutes to contact your Rep and Senators and urge them to support these bills:

Save America’s Forgotten Equines (SAFE) Act of 2023 (H.R. 3475 in the House / S.2307 in the Senate). This bill will shut down the slaughter pipeline that sends some 20,000 American horses and donkeys to savagely monstrous deaths in foreign slaughterhouses every year.

The Wild Horse & Burro Protection Act of 2023 (H. R. 3656) This bill will prohibit the use of helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft in the management of wild mustangs and burros on public lands, and require a report on humane alternatives to current management practices.

Ejiao Act of 2023 (H.R. 6021). To ​​ban the sale or transportation of ejiao, a gelatin made from boiling donkey skins, or products containing ejiao in interstate or foreign commerce, which brutally kills millions of donkeys primarily for beauty products and Chinese medicine.

You can Contact Members of Congress by calling the Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121‬, submitting contact forms on their individual websites, or sending one email to all three simultaneously at www.democracy.io

See our How to Help menu for other actions to ban zebra hunting at US canned hunt ranches, stop production of Premarin & other PMU drugs, and defund the Adoption Incentive Program.